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J. M. PRICE. METALLIC GROSS TIE AND RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.-

No. 504,540. Patented Sept. 5, 1893.

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J. M. PRICE. METALLIG GROSS TIE A-ND RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION. No. 504,540. Patented Sept. 5, 1893.

W/TNES8ES;. YINVENTOR ATTOkNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT Qrnrcni.

JAMES M. PRICE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE PRICE RAILWAY APPLIANCE COMPANY, OF PENNSYLVANIA.

METALLIC CROSS-TIE AND RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 504,540, dated September 5, 1893.

Application filed June 18, 1892. $erial1lo. 437,115. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES M. PRICE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Metallic Gross-Ties and Railway Construction, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of built up or combined ties made up of angle bars in pieces long and short, the latter placed transversely to the longer pieces and securely bound to them by rivets or bolts and nuts, and of underlying pieces of T or angle bar, serving not only, when so secured to the body pieces of greatest length, to bind all parts firmly together, but also as anchors of an indispensable character to retain the tie in the ballast against any centrifugal force or, exceptional strain whatever. This anchorage, greatly needed by all previous forms of metallic ties,and usually absent, slight, or defective in them,is believed to be in these ties now presented, so perfect that the whole ballast must suffer displacement before their sliding endwise.

Figure 1 represents a transverse section of a cross tie and connected parts embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a perspective view thereof. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of a portion thereof. Fig. 4; represents a perspective view of a portion of a modification. Fig. 5 represents a transverse section of another form of my invention. Fig. 6 represents a perspective View thereof. Fig. 7 represents a side elevation of a portion thereof. Fig.8 represents a perspective View of a portion of a modification.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings: A designates a railroad rail of ordinary construction, and B designates a block of wood or other non-metallic substance which carries the rail, said block being placed upon the angle bars K, which form achannel tie on which are seated two pairs of sections of angle bars G, said angle bars or chairs being in pairs, and each being separated from its fellow so as to admit only of the width of a flange of the rail between them, said angle pieces G being secured to the angle bars K by rivets or bolts and nuts, thus firmly binding said parts together. The upper edges of the angle pieces G are deeply notched, and holes are made in their bases to permit the passage at each point of the clamps G, which reach from the base of the tie which it clasps to the upper surface of the rail flange which it also embraces, the contact surface of the clamp being inclined so as to tighten more and more as driven home by the bolt H which passes through said clamps, the vertical limbs of the angle pieces G, and the block B, it being noticed that the inner vertical surface of the clamps stands out sufficiently to make allowance for take-up as the block may slowly wear, so as to be able to maintain a firmness of the clutch or grasp that is produced.

J designates clips or spuds which are punched up from the angle bars K, outside of the angle pieces G, and bent over upon the horizontal limbs of the angle pieces G, so as to place at that point additional guarantee of security should the rivet break.

r L designates under-lying angle bars having the depending flanges M and side wings or flaps, which serve as anchors which are riveted or otherwise firmly secured to the tie and placed preferably under each rail and their edges caught by the feet of the clamps O, and they may also be located midway of the tie, or they may be increased in number and distributed along the inside of the tie as desired. The channel resulting from this combination may have its hollow downward, as shown in Fig. 2, and grasping the ballast to be tamped thereunder, or the hollow may be upward, as in Fig. 6, and filled with ballast.

The two bars forming the tie in Fig. 2, may be connected by a plate of metal riveted or bolted to the horizontal limbs of the bars, or the tie may be made in one piece as in Fig. 4, where the vertical limbs of the channel are show n at N and an opening for the clamp O at N In Fig. 2, the vertical limbs of the separated angle bars are shown at K.

In Fig. 6, the vertical limbs from the channel bars are shown at K, and where the channel is formed of one piece, the side pieces P rise from the base P, and the latter is provided with an opening P for the clamp O.

In the solid channel bar I may decrease the weight and number of the anchors attached on its under side by belts or rivets by stamping out three sides of a square flap or pad and turning it down at or nearly at a right angle at its adhering edge, so as to obtain by it a supplemental security without additional metal.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In track structure, pieces of angle bar or rectangular, metallic chairs, used in pairs, to inclose blocks of a less height, underlying and supporting railway rails in combination with a trough like metallic tie to which they are attached by bolts or rivets and stout clamps C, O, grasping both the flange of the rail and the base of the tie,substantially as described.

2. In a track structure, pieces of angle bar G, G, or metallic chairs, deeply notched in the middle of their upper edge to receive a clamp, with a long hole through their base through which the foot of the clamp reaches and clasps the under side of the metallic tie upon which the pieces are seated and pierced by round holes for rivets or bolts, substantially as described.

3. A metal tie of trough or channel section, supporting two pairs of metallic chairs consisting of two transverse pairs of pieces of angle bar which embrace the flanges of the rails and the supporting blocks on which they stand, in combination with rigid clamps G, 0, whose upper ends clasp the flanges, while the lower ends grasp similarly the base of the tie, substantially as described.

4: A metallic channel tie, a pair of metallic chairs consistingof two angle bars, a wooden block on said tie between said bars, an underlying piece under said tie, clamps with limbs embracing said underlying piece and the flanges of a rail on said block, and a bolt connecting said clamps, said parts being combined substantially as described.

5. A channel shaped tie of metal in combination with pieces of angle bar on each side, seated transversely to the bed of the channel, as part of the fastcnings for the rail and other pieces of angle bar as anchors for the tie in the ballast, and secured to the tie by bolts or rivets, or both, with clips or fins so cut from the tie as to grasp or confine the edge of the angle piece from movement, substantially as described.

6. In a rail fastening, two rigid clamps, each with upper catch or jaw with inclined lower surface fitting upon the flange of the rail, and a lower catch or jaw grasping the under side of a metallic tie, and a securing bolt passing through said clamps the two clasping surfaces of the clamps so inclined as to apply a wedging force to both surfaces, admitting tightening up by the traversing bolt as the supporting block shall wear, substantially as described.

7. Abuilt up tie consisting of two longitudinal angle bars with the hollow upward, parallel to each other, but apart or separated in the middle, in combination with two pairs of angle bar pieces, or two pairs of metallic chairs, set crosswise of them within the hollow of the channel formed by attaching the longitudinal bars to these pieces by rivets or bolts, with T pieces or pieces of angle bar crosswise of the tie and placed beneath the rail and its supporting block, and riveted or bolted to the tie, substantially as described.

8. In a railway structure, a sectional channel bar having transverse connecting underlying pieces with depending flanges, angle bars forming chairs, a supporting block, clamps passing through said tie and having limbs embracing said underlying pieces and the flanges of a rail on said block, and a securing bolt passing through said chairs, clamps and blocks, said parts being combined substantially as described.

JAMES M. PRICE.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, A. P. JENNINGS. 

